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Self-guided Punjabi Market audio tours at Indian Summer Festival evoke all the senses, to July 17

Artists, shop owners, and community members bring fresh insights to the past, present, and history of the ‘hood

CULTURE, FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJuly 2, 2021Indian Summer Festival

Bodies and seascapes unite in two COVID Commissions from both coasts, at the Dancing on the Edge festival

Billy Marchenski embodies isolation at Iona Beach, while Meredith Kalaman explores ocean and identity

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJuly 2, 2021Dancing on the Edge, Billy Marchenski, butoh, Homepage feature

Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival rolls to Brentwood Market, July 9, 10, 23, 24

Tacofino, Takenaka, Old Country Pierogi among the mobile eateries setting up at Shop the Block—Brentwood Market

Vancouver artist Hanna Lee Joshi's work lands on the cover of international art magazine

The Emily Carr University grad’s I’m a little shy … but that’s ok featured in the current issue of Hi-Fructose

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJuly 1, 2021art and design, Emily Carr University, ECUAD

Haida artist Tamara Bell to reveal mural on Commercial Drive in honour of Indigenous children, July 1

The new, collaborative project on Commercial Drive comes in response to discoveries of unmarked graves at former residential schools

NEWS, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJune 30, 2021News, art and design, mural, Indigenous, Tamara Bell

From pinstriping and airbrushing to winemaking: Gina Fernandes Harfman brings an artist’s approach to Nostalgia Wines

From a barrel program to easy-drinking wine with pin-ups on the labels, she’s keeping lost art forms alive as the Oliver-based winery evolves

CULINARYGail JohnsonJune 30, 2021wine, BC wine, pinstriping, airbrushing

Risk, play, and freedom: Théâtre la Seizième’s micro-residency program supports Francophone artists

Francophone and Francophile artists with theatre-based practices benefitted from creative experimentation

THEATREStir VancouverJune 30, 2021Partner Content, Theatre, Theatre la Seizieme

Vivid animation and thermal imaging recapture vanished Japanese Canadian history at Surrey Art Gallery

Cindy Mochizuki: Autumn Strawberry reflects on farms lost to internment, while Henry Tsang sees Hastings Park buildings through a haunting new lens

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJune 30, 2021Surrey Art Gallery, SAG, CIndy Mochizuki, Henry Tsang, Homepage feature

Shay Kuebler and Radical System Art take another look at isolation in M.O.I.—the partitions, at Dancing on the Edge July 8 and 9

It’s the second chapter in a multi-dancer work-in-progress that kicks off the fest’s Firehall Arts Centre live series

Home-based chef brings Yemeni culture to Vancouver through food and coffee

Lital Tamari Cohen is the founder of Jedda’s White Coffee and Jedda’s Authentic Yemeni Goodies

Singer Dee Daniels' creativity is reborn after a bout with cancer, and a brush with the divine

She went into the operating room as a leading interpreter of the Great American Songbook, and emerged as a songwriter

MUSICStir VancouverJune 28, 2021Coastal Jazz, Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Jill Barber returns to the Jazz Fest stage with something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue

The chanteuse closes the annual festival with an in-person and streaming concert

FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonJune 28, 2021Jazz Fest, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Jill Barber

VSO to release recording of final live concert of its 2020-21 season featuring Steven Page, Kevin Fox, and Craig Northey, July 6

The in-person show will live on online

Vancouver Pride brings more than 60 in-person and virtual events to the city this summer

#ChooseYourPride celebrations range from VanPrideFest to pop-up Pride Lounges

FESTSStir VancouverJune 28, 2021Partner Content, fests, festivals, Pride, Vancouver Pride Society, VanPrideFest

Imagine Van Gogh extends its run to September 7, and expands summer hours

The giant projections of the Post-Impressionist painters work fill 25,000 feet of the Vancouver Convention Centre

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJune 28, 2021Imagine Van Gogh

Rachel Meyer gives an inside look at new creation via The Dance Centre's online DanceLab, starting June 29

The choreographer and dancer says Mama, do we die when we sleep? was inspired by a question from her daughter

DANCEStir VancouverJune 28, 2021Partner Content, The Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre

Talking Stick Festival announces new Indigenous arts-focused events, July 1

Indigifunk artist Curtis Clear Sky, hip-hop and spoken-word artist JB the First Lady, and storyteller-author Nicola I Campbell among the performers marking National Indigenous History Month

HIVE 2021: Flight Paths finds new ways to keep micro-performances buzzing

Via laptop or cellphone, individual audience members can connect with innovative 15-minute-max shows

THEATRE, LIVESTREAMJanet SmithJune 27, 2021Hive

Burgerland Smash Up bites into burger culture

Inspired by George Motz, Bodhi Valentine makes beef and plant-based “smashburger” kits to order out of an East Vancouver commissary

CULINARYGail JohnsonJune 26, 2021culinary, burgers, commissary kitchen

Emad Armoush bridges Arabic, jazz, and even flamenco worlds with new Rayhan project

At the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the Syrian ex-pat’s new quintet crosses cultures in captivating ways

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